ICYMI: x402 just landed a home under the Linux Foundation The same neutral nonprofit that stewards Linux, Kubernetes and some of the most critical open source infrastructure on the planet when a protocol lands here it is a signal that the industry considers it foundational TLDR: i) Coinbase, Cloudflare, Stripe, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Shopify, Circle, Solana Foundation and others are all founding members of the x402 Foundation ii) x402 is the payment primitive the web never had; HTTP moves data, x402 moves money, natively at the protocol level iii) rail-agnostic; fiat, crypto, multi-chain, no ideological gatekeeping iv) built for the agentic web; agents need to transact programmatically without human authorization loops v) no single company owns it; that is the point we published a full @KhalaResearch deep dive on x402 last month covering the architecture, facilitator model and the broader agentic commerce stack (visual below) I'll link the full report below: Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) x.com/i/article/203965656653… — https://nitter.net/coinbase/status/2039689438922522728#m

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